Forward Thinking
My beginnings are not beginnings; I just start. Sometimes I have to write the beginning after the book is done. Well, that seems like a natural thing, but many people don't go forward because the beginning isn't right; they just leave it until they get it right. I write what's there, what I know is there. If I have to rewrite it or change it, I'm... See more
In Her Own Words: Toni Morrison on Writing, Editing, and Teaching
We must reevaluate reach, views and ad-revenue as our go-to metrics of success, and instead aim towards the worth of depth. Call it the invaluable intensity of love. After all, we only care about what we can measure. And passion is a murky metric.
Matt Klein • The Creator Paradox: Cultural Stasis Amidst Creative Surplus
Alvin Toffler on the Future: “When it comes to the future, it’s far more important to be imaginative than to be right.”
The future belongs to people who can think about a hard problem for more than 10 minutes without doing anything else.
Breathe. It's just a bad day, not a bad life.
Creativity is the quality that you bring to the activity that you are doing. It is an attitude, an inner approach — how you look at things. Not everybody can be a painter — and there is no need also. If everybody is a painter the world will be very ugly; it will be difficult to live. And not everybody can be a dancer, and there is no need. But
... See moreA long-term dream does not have to be realistic or even specific. It may reflect the desire to work in a particular field or to travel throughout the world. Maybe the dream is to have professional autonomy or a certain amount of free time. Maybe it’s to create something lasting or win a coveted prize.
Sheryl Sandberg • Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead
the future won’t be rebuilt by algorithms or governments. it gets rebuilt the way everything good gets rebuilt — at human scale, with the people actually around you, one front porch at a time.
Keely • hey so we're hosting a funeral
Every thought, vision, and idea that frequently occurs in our psyche happens for a reason. Our dreams are our destiny’s way of communicating with us. We spend far too much of our time looking at our dreams through the veils of the challenges that live between us and our desires. When we approach our dreams with the energy that says “I can, I will,
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